Our military overwhelmingly wants concealed carry rights on base

From Hotair:

There was an unusual Rasmussen survey this month which provided a glimpse into one segment of the population we don’t hear from often enough. Our nation’s military almost uniformly (pun not intended) wants the right to arm themselves while on base. Unfortunately, what seems like common sense at the most basic level is highly controversial in politics, particularly among the Democrat leadership. Our own Katie Pavlich touched on this at Town Hall with some of the pertinent background.

After watching the slaughter at the Ft. Hood terror attack in 2009, the second Ft. Hood shooting in 2014 and most recently in Chattanooga, soldiers stationed at bases and posts here at home are fed up with the military’s “gun free” zone policy.

Current Department of Defense policy states, “It is DoD policy to limit and control the carrying of firearms by DoD military and civilian personnel. The authorization to carry firearms shall be issued only to qualified personnel when there is a reasonable expectation that life or DoD assets will be jeopardized if firearms are not carried.”

After Chattanooga, this policy was even more dumbfounding. The FBI had been warning military service members about potential lone wolf terror attacks for nearly a year, yet didn’t allow those stationed in recruitment centers any means to protect themselves.

The results of this survey are pretty much as obvious as discovering that water is wet, but as I noted above, it’s something of a rare glimpse.

It's about time.